On this page you may find the following material (put in order of appearance):

Reference manual for the tutorial + additional student manual

EVALUATION OF THE BLOG MATERIAL / TUTORIAL SESSION (please, remember to do the evaluation)

Suggestions on what to focus your study

EXERCISES SOLVED BY ME (most of the exercises in the book, 4th edition + 5th edition)

Freeware software for graphs and for exercise solutions, and also additional exercises

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Reference manual for the tutorial + additional student manual

Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis,

Knut Sydsaeter & Peter Hammond,

Pearson Education, 2008 3rd edition

(the prof. and you have the 4th edition, it is basically the same besides few exercises)

ISBN: 9780273713241

Some time in the future I will upgrade the references in a way that pages and exercises refers to the fourth editions. Those that I am uploading now refer to the 3rd editions, which is only slightly different, so that you will easily connect my references to the 4th book easily.

There is also a student manual. It is a short book, wherein you can find the solutions for some exercises in a greater detail. Often even step by step.

BLOG MATERIAL / TUTORIAL SESSION EVALUATION

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For earlier theory, I also “SUGGEST”, take a look to page 11 (quadratic identities), page 41-45 (quadratic equations), and page 25-27 (sign diagrams). Then (shifting graphs) page 127-129. Moreover, natural exponential function basic properties and natural logarithm basice properties, page 117 and 121; integers power page 4, fractional powers page 19. This is the basic stuff you will use over and over again throughout the mathematics course, and 90% of times also in any economics course.

From 6.8, these sections will definetly be important.

Chapter 7, I suggest to focus on sections: 7.1, 7.2, 7.7, 7.8.

Chapter 8, it is foundamental to spend a lot of time on it.

Chapter 9, I suggest to focus on sections: 9.1 to 9.7, skip 9.6.

Skip chapter 10.

Chapter 11: the whole chp.

Chapter 12: I suggest to focus on sections: 12.1 to 12.6, in section 12.7 you are required to know the intuition of what homogeneous and homotetic functions are, skip 12.8, do the section 12.9, 12.10.

Chapter 13: I suggest to focus on sections: 13.1 to 13.7.

Chapter 14: I suggest to focus on sections: 14.1, 14.2, 14.4, 14.5.

Chapter 15: I suggest to focus on sections: 15.1 to 15.7, skip 15.6.

Chapter 16: I suggest to focus on sections: 16.1, 16.2, 16.4 and 16.6.

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Exercises solved by me

How to read the material?

1) in the list below:

# – xxxxx -> # just represents the chronological order in which I have uploaded the material, while xxxx is the name of the file.

2) the names of the files (generically named xxxx in the point above):

chap ## or chp ## or section ## or new exercises chap -> tells you what the material is referring to (chapter or specific section); “new exercises” means simply that this is material that I have uploaded on the academic year 2012-2013

point 21 and 22 refers to exercises 14.1 N*3 and 14.5 N*1, which are related.

3) understand the content of each file:

in each file you find references to specific sections and exercises numbers; first, you find (chapter##.section##) in a circle, then, each exercise number is either underlined or is put into a squared box [N* ##]